850 ARTICLE 4.

co-ordinate the same to organize, reorganize and abolish any office, board
or commission and/or consolidate the same with any other office, board
or commission and provide for the several duties, powers and functions
thereof and/or the transfer thereof in whole or in part to or with any
other office, board or commission.

Nothing contained in the foregoing grant of power shall be construed
to apply to the Public Improvement Commission for the City of Balti-
more as established by Ordinance No. 376 of the year 1920, but said
Commission shall continue as provided by said ordinance and subject to
its limitations.

(16) PARKS.

1862, ch. 29. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 705. 1896, ch. 366.

To establish, maintain, control and regulate parks or squares in the
City ofo Baltimore, for the recreation and benefit of its citizens. The
resolution of the Mayor aud City Council of Baltimore, appointing a com-
mission in relation to the proposed public parks, approved June 4, 1860,
and the ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to pro-
vide for a public park or parks, approved June 21, 1860, are confirmed;
and all acts done, or which may hereafter be done, by the said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or the officers of said city, or the Park Com-
missioners acting under the provisions of the said resolution and ordi-
nance, shall have the same effect as if the said Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, prior to the passage of said resolution and ordinance, had
been expressly empowered, by Act of the General Assembly, to enact a
resolution and ordinance 111 the precise terms of said resolution and ordi-
nance, and to provide for carrying the same into effect. All the rights,
privileges and authority heretofore granted by ordinance, to the Park
Commission, are hereby transferred to the Board of Park Commissioners
as constituted in this Charter. The Board of Park Commissioners be
and hereby is authorized and empowered to assume exclusive jurisdiction
and control over the public highway known as Green Spring Avenue
Road, extending from the north entrance of Druid Hill Park, through
parts of Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County, to the Western
Run bridge in Baltimore County, with full power in said Board of Park
Commissioners to regulate the use of the said Green Spring Avenue Road
as a highway, and to prescribe the hours when and the manner in which
manure carts, hay wagons and all or any other description of vehicles
may use the same, and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation
of such regulations, in the same manner as it prescribes fines and penal-
ties for violations of the public park regulations. The owners of said
Green Spring Avenue Road are hereby authorized to grant, and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby authorized to accept
from said owners, a good and sufficient deed for the bed of said road,
subject to the rights of the adjacent property-holders to use the same
as a highway. From and immediately after the acceptance by the Mayor